Adjustable window-shade bracket.



No. 686,442. Patented Nov. I2, I901;

A. H. CH'ELLIS.

ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SHADE BRACKET.

(Application filed Jupe 29, 1901.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES ALEXANDER H. CHELLIS,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF BIDDEFORD, MAINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,442, dated November 12 1901.

Application filed June 29, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER H. CHEL- LIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Biddeford, in the county of York and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Adjustable Window-Shade Bracket, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in adjustable window-shade brackets.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of adjustable window shade brackets, more especially the means for adjusting the same, and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be readily applied to a window frame or casing and capable of enabling window-shade brackets to be readily adjusted and securely held at the desired adjustment.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of a portion of a window provided with adj ustable window-shade brackets constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the clamps. Fig. 4 is a similar View of one of the brackets.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l and 2 designate window-shade brackets located at opposite sides of a window, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, and provided with suitable openings or bearings for the reception of the journals of a window-shade roller. One of the brackets is designed to be provided with an ordinary circular bearing-opening for the reception of the round. journal of the shaderoller, and the other bracket is designed to be provided with the usual slot to receive the journal that is connected with the spring of the roller. The brackets are provided with arms 3, arran ed horizontally and engaged by clamps 4, which are adapted to permit the brackets to be adjusted horizontally to vary the distance between them to accommodate window-shades of different widths. Each of Serial No. 66,557. (No model.)

the clamps 4 is constructed of a single piece of spring-steel or other suitable material and is provided with a resilient tongue 5, formed by cutting the body portion or plate of the clamp, and provided with a central angularlybent outwardly-offset portion 6, which receives the arm 3 of the bracket and which provides an opening for the same. The ends of the body portion of the clamp are preferably rounded, and the upper end of the tongue, which is also preferably rounded, is provided with a perforation for the reception of a screw or other suitable fastening device. The lower end of the plate or body pprtion is provided with a similar perforation 7, adapted to receive a screw, and these screws perform the double function of attaching the clamp to the window frame or casing and of holding the bracket at the desired adjustment. The arm 3 of the bracket fits against the outer face of the plate and is offset by the same from the window frame or casing,which is notscratclied or otherwise marred by the brackets. By adjusting the upper screw 8, which passes through the free end of the tongue, the latter is tightened and loosened to clamp and release the arm 3, and the bracket may thereby be readily adjusted to the desired position.

It will be seen that the device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to a window frame-0r casing, and that it is capable of enabling a window-shade bracket to be readily adjusted and securely held at the desired adjustment. It will also be apparent that the fastening device, which passes through the free end of the tongue, assists in securing the clamp to the window frame or casing and serves to cause the tongue to clamp the arm of the bracket.

What I claim is- 1. In a device of the class described, the combination with a bracket having an arm, of a clamp consisting of a plate or body portion receiving the arm, and a resilient tongue formed integral with the plate or body portion and engaging the'arm, and fastening devices passing through the plate or body portion of the clamp and through the free end of the tongue, the fastening device which passes through the latter serving both to secure the clamp to a window-frame and hold the tongue in engagement with the arm, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a bracket having an arm,

of a clamp consisting of a plate or body portion, and a resilient tongue formed integral with the plate or body portion and connected at one end with the same and provided between its ends with a bend forming an open- 10 ing receiving the arm of the bracket, and a fastening device passing through the free end 

